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The Human Rights & Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC) has begun developing a project considering reform of the legal recognition of sex.
HREOC announced its intentions in a report of its initial consultation on sex and gender diversity, released this week. During June and July the Human Rights Commissioner Graeme Innes held public meetings in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Canberra at which sex and gender diverse (SGD) people provided feedback on what they considered to be the main issues HREOC should tackle. The priority issue for SGD people was to have their sex or gender “appropriately recorded (including the ability to not conform solely to a particular sex or gender) on official documents and records” the report noted. Other issues included the need for education and awareness of sex and gender diversity, appropriate health policy and services and protection from discrimination. Based on the responses HREOC will consider laws and policy that govern the amendment of various identity documents and the ways in which private and public organisations use or record information about a person’s sex or gender. The organisation will now consult more broadly via a blog with the SGD community to ascertain views about the legal recognition of sex impacts a person’s ability to enjoy all human rights. The blog will be located on the HREOC website at www.humanrights.gov.au/genderdiversity Sex and Gender Education (SAGE) spokesperson Tracie O’Keefe said HREOC also needs to consider “the omitted issues of non-transgendered cross-dressers’ rights, the appalling treatment of SGD people in the medical system and by the police,mutilation through unnecessary and involuntary circumcision and abuse within religion”.
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